Jaipur: Given the second meeting of the Economic Advisory Committee, the Chairman of the Ashok Minister Gehlot said on Thursday that reduced compensation for GST losses and less than the estimated payment of the distributed central tax collection had complicated the state’s fiscal situation.
Although lower payments by the center, the state government has managed its finances carefully to fund the program and initiative departments such as education, health, water, electricity and infrastructure roads.
He said Rajasthan was one of several countries that had been able to spend more for various programs despite being reduced by taxes from the center.
“We strive to fulfill all promises made in Manifesto,” he said in the release.
He said in the current budget, the focus is to increase health infrastructure and in the upcoming budget encouragement will be educated.
He said that Rajasthan is estimated to get Rs 50,000 Crore in 2020-21 from a collection of taxes divided at the center according to the 15th Finance Commission.
“But now we only get Rs 32,000 Crore,” he said.
In the central assistance program for water and others, the funding ratio used is 90% by central and 10% by the state.
“Now, the ratio is 50:50 which has burden additional burden in the state,” he added.
Likewise, from a distributed fuel tax collection, the state’s share of the state will come down firmly, he claims.
To fight Covid, the state government has increased oxygen beds by 149%, ICU beds of 64% and a ventilator bed of 87%.
“In the last two and a half years, 90,000 recruitment has been carried out to provide better health services and 81,000 other recruitment is in the process,” he said.
The meeting was attended by several senior government ministers, including members of the Advisory Committee.